More Articles

A convicted killer with a history of attacking fellow inmates has pleaded guilty to murdering a
Licking County man behind bars.

Eugene Groves, 59, admitted on Monday that he stabbed Mark Frash, 51, more than a dozen times
with a homemade knife on Sept. 12, 2010, at Ross Correctional Institution in Chillicothe.

Groves was sentenced to 15 years to life for the murder, a punishment that will run concurrent
to the 1976 life sentence he’s serving for kidnapping and killing his estranged wife and shooting
her mother in Hamilton County.

Groves has been transferred to the Ohio State Penitentiary in Youngstown, is under the highest
level of security and is unlikely to mingle with other inmates again. Schmidt said he never should
have in the first place.

Groves was found not guilty by reason of insanity after he stabbed an inmate in the chest with
upholstery shears in 1985, Schmidt said, and he was convicted of attempted murder during an attack
on another prisoner in 1988.